Senate Bill 231 Summary

• Enacts agency policy directives for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium affecting education, health and human services, environment, military affairs, and administrative operations.

• Education changes include eliminating superintendent reporting of school fee schedules, authorizing CTE Foundation to administer grants, broadening charter school enrollment priorities, expanding the Schools That Lead pilot program to 75 schools, and requiring one arts education credit for graduation beginning 2022.

• Health and human services provisions establish Medicaid eligibility categories and income thresholds, authorize annual issuance of Medicaid ID cards, expand the Child Fatality Task Force, and allow enhanced permanency initiatives and foster care transition services.

• Environmental and natural resources sections modify reporting requirements for solid waste management, conservation grants, and fee structures at state parks and museums; establish a Veterans Cemetery Trust Fund.

• Administrative changes modernize procurement processes, authorize use of 911 funds for military installation compatibility, allow inmate construction programs, and modify reporting requirements across multiple agencies effective July 1, 2020.